Dare call it treason?
"No one should miss the stench of cowardice, and yet there is no sign voters care or understand that cowardice runs through the British state"
Citizens’ Assemblies let the elite skew public debate
‘A Citizens’ Assembly is a useful way for politicians to unload a toxic issue onto 110 random citizens who will never face an electorate’
An explosive error
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke—infamous for defending the regime of Slobodan Milošević—the world was astonished
Carbon carnage: the real cost of grouse-shooting
‘Grouse moors are burnt and drained. Regenerating native trees are rooted out. Bogs and mires, wet miracles of carbon capture, are trashed by fire, ditches, vehicles, access roads, and trampling deer and
Defining women
‘The wording of anti-trans hate-crime guidance is so vague, and so reliant on subjective interpretation, that it could be open to misuse by politically-motivated actors’
Counter-intelligence needs a rethink. Catching spies is not enough
‘Western counter-intelligence has been largely defensive. Given the existential threats we increasingly face, we now need to go on the offensive’
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
Surveillance is tightening inside China—but our carelessness also gives the regime huge capabilities abroad
A multitude of dignities
Are human rights dependent on “human dignity”—and what does “human dignity” even mean?
Canada’s election takes the shine off Trudeau
Justin Trudeau has been exposed as one of the weakest and most ineffective leaders his country has ever known
A glimpse of heaven
Schumann’s setting of Faust is an aesthetic and spiritual triumph—and now with a singer to match